Draft: Best of 1980s and 1990s

[morgieb]

David Richardson

1. Slater
2. Jayasuriya (5)
3. Jones
4. Chappell (7)
5. Abbas
6. Cronje (6)
7. Hadlee (1)
8. Richardson+
9. Yardley (4)
10. Bishop (2)
11. Alderman (3)

 

[watson]

Good team Morgeib - dangerous bowling attack and a solid middle-order kick-started by a couple of attacking openers. Like it.

 

[bagapath]

David Richardson

1. Slater
2. Jayasuriya (5)
3. Jones
4. Chappell (7)
5. Abbas
6. Cronje (6)
7. Hadlee (1)
8. Richardson+
9. Yardley (4)
10. Bishop (2)
11. Alderman (3)

good, solid team.

 

[Himannv]

EDIT: I need to think about this one. Hold on.

 

[Himannv]

Haven't a clue what my team looks like. Will try to go back and check.

 

[Himannv]

Arjuna Ranatunga

01. Justin Langer
02. Desmond Haynes
03. Ricky Ponting
04. Mahela Jayawardena
05. Gundappa Viswanath
06. Arjuna Ranatunga
07. Rashid Lateef+
08. Shaun Pollock
09. Shafraz Nawaz
10. Geoff Lawson
11. Murali

Got a few glaring weaknesses.

 

[watson]

The "Axeman" - Ijaz Ahmed

01. Matthew Hayden
02. Aamer Sohail
03. Ijaz Ahmed
04. Mark Waugh
05. Stephen Fleming*
06. VVS Laxman
07. Jeff Dujon+
08. Dennis Lillee
09. 'Venkat'
10. Allan Donald
11. Patrick Patterson

 

[fredfertang]

Graeme Hick to round my team off - a much better bat than his reputation suggests, a decent offie and he'll complete a top class slip cordon with Athers and Sir Beefy

 

[bagapath]

why did you guys not wait for AndyZaltzHair?

 

[watson]

why did you guys not wait for AndyZaltzHair?

1. Ijaz doesn't open the batting.
2. It's now yesterday.
3. My hovercraft is full of eels.

 

[bagapath]

Round 11

01. Morgeib - Dave Richardson
02. Himannv - Arjuna Ranatunga
03. AndyZaltzHair - Mohsin Khan
04. Watson - Ijaz Ahmed
05. Fredfertang - Graeme Hick
06. Justo - Moin Khan
07. Long Hop Cassidy -
08. Bagapath –
09. Pothas -
10. Kingkallis -
11. Harsh –
12. Monk -
13. Coronis -

 

[Justo]

Pretty sure he hasn't been picked so its Moin Khan as my keeper.

01. Saeed Anwar
02. Herschelle Gibbs
03. Inzamam Ul Haq
04. Jimmy Adams
05. Jonty Rhodes
06. Brian McMillan
07. Moin Khan +
08. Daniel Vettori
09. Curtley Ambrose
10. Waqar Younis
11. Bruce Reid

In hindsight I regret choosing Vettori when I did.

 

[Coronis]

Gun pace attack though.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Mohsin Khan

Mohsin was good on bouncy and fast pitches

1. Mohsin Khan
2. Graham Yallop
3. Dilip Vengsarkar
4. Martin Crowe
5. David Gower
6. Shiv Chanderpaul
7. Rod Marsh+
8. Tauseef Ahmed
9. Michael Holding
10. Jeff Thomson
11. Glenn McGrath

 

[watson]

Sitting here analysing your team over a healthy lunch consisting of lamington cake and a cup of coffee - I'd say definitely top 3 contention with Crowe/Gower/Chanderpaul and McGrath/Holding being standouts.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

And Azhar Mahmood makes the final cut.

A stalwart of the Sydney Thunder, crafty with changes of pace and swing, stealthy with a bottle-top and according to Days of Grace the artist behind the 7th best Test innings of all time. Only 28 Tests but gets in on the back of three man-of-the-match awards against the wrath of Donald and Pollock.

So the final cut is:

1. Gary Kirsten
2. Graham Gooch*
3. Brian Lara
4. Sachin Tendulkar
5. Allan Lamb
6. Ravi Shastri
7. Azhar Mahmood
8. Ian Healy+
9. Chaminda Vaas
10. Damien Fleming
11. Craig McDermott

Coach: Darren Lehmann
Bowling coach: David Saker
Batting coach: Mike Brearley
High performance/fitness manager: Mike Gatting
Media spokesman: Shakoor Rana

Home ground is Antigua. Bowl me out, ****s.

 

[watson]

That top 4 is very unfair LHC.

And I think that you were probably right going for a line n' length seamer like Mahmood rather than a spinner.

 

[bagapath]

Going for Graham Dilley to make it 3 bowlers with 200+, one with 150+ and one with 130+ wickets - all at sub 30 averages.

SM Gavaskar
KC Wessels
Viv Richards (c)
LA Gomes
JF Reid
DL Houghton (wk)
CL Cairns
Heath Streak
AME Roberts
G Dilley
Iqbal Qasim

Round 11

01. Morgeib - Dave Richardson
02. Himannv - Arjuna Ranatunga
03. AndyZaltzHair - Mohsin Khan
04. Watson - Ijaz Ahmed
05. Fredfertang - Graeme Hick
06. Justo - Moin Khan
07. Long Hop Cassidy - Azhar Mahmood
08. Bagapath – Graham Dilley
09. Pothas - Jeremy Coney
10. Kingkallis -
11. Harsh – Adam Parore
12. Monk -
13. Coronis -

 

[Howe_zat]

watson, were you talking about Phil Edmonds for the remaining spinner?

 

[watson]

watson, were you talking about Phil Edmonds for the remaining spinner?

I used to like watching Phil Edmonds bowl, and I seriously considered him for my side. Kind of wish that I did include him.

But no, there's a classier left-armer that no one's picked yet. Unfortunately his career clashed with some well established spinners so he got left on the side-lines even though he deserved to play 50+ Tests. Couldn't bat to save his life though.